This guy said The Bad Weather Friend is a masterpiece. I bought him a Porsche & adopted him. It’s weird having a son the same age as I am.

I wrote WATCHERS before I ever had a dog. But I did a lot of research in a highly convincing dog suit.

What inspired THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND? I walked into a bar with a goose. Benny, Harper & Spike were having a drink with a squirrel. A novel ensued.

A reader asks if time travel is possible, as in LIGHTNING. I will tell you what I think when I get back from vacation in 1932 New York.

As never before, the ruling class despises everyday people. Spike, the bad weather friend, helps a nice guy teach them a lesson.

2024 is going to be great! Elsa and I have been after Bigfoot for years and have tracked him to the San Diego area. Watch the news!

Q: What’s Elsa’s favorite memory of 2023?
A: How she avoided being attacked & eaten by coyotes. She now carries bear spray.

Q: What’s your favorite thing about winter?
A: It doesn’t come between spring and summer, requiring extreme wardrobe changes.

Ask me Anything. Ever since aliens took me up to the mother ship for a brain-and-body probing, I have no secrets.

Q: How do you select the settings for your stories?
A: I ask a Ouija board. For some reason, the dead have a talent for scene setting.

The limited edition of my next novel, The Bad Weather Friend is now available at charnelhouse.com

Q: A memory from your wedding day?
A: The priest called me Dan. (True) So I called him “sister” instead of “father.” (Untrue, but I wish.)

If I could go back in time, I’d travel to 1970 and tell Wile E. Coyote just to give it up, it’s never going to happen.

Q: Which 2 of your characters would you like to have meet in a crossover novel?
A: Odd Thomas & Jocko from the last four Frankenstein books.

Q: Should writers read their reviews?
A: Only if you know it’s a critic who reads what he/she reviews. Some don’t.

I’ve written about it in A Big Little Life. The day after the date, Gerda told me that she laughed so hard her stomach ached. That has always troubled me, because I don’t believe I said anything funny.

Q: What is Odd Thomas’s pancake recipe?
A: What’re you——a spy from iHop? You want the best pancake recipe ever for free? Shame on you.

Q: Did you ever join a writer’s group?
A: No. I’m not much of a joiner. If I joined, I’d be the guy in the corner muttering to himself.

Ask me anything. Questions, questions. Do I not have a life? Am I to spend years satisfying your curiosity? Does that seem fair to you?

No. But I’ve long wanted to write a novel entirely from the point of view of a dog. I haven’t done it because I suspect my editor would pull out my hair instead of her own.